When asked how to achieve success more rapidly, came the quick reply, 'Double your failure rate'.

It was courage, faith, endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all obstacles that built this bridge.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity.

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.